P Draus
Biographic Data
| ID | 128121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Draus |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Draus |
| SIGNATURE | DRAUS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan–Dearborn |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0759-9776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Mapping the link between outdoor water footprint and social vulnerability in Metro Phoenix, AZ (USA)
Outdoor surface water inequities are the disproportionate distribution of outdoor water for the management of blue and green space, including residential swimming pools and irrigated gardens, and contribute to thermal inequities that are particularly pervasive in arid climates. The purpose of this study was to map and assess social vulnerability to green space and blue space within two transects in metro Phoenix, Arizona, a socioeconomically dive…
The Healthy Dearborn coalition
Healthy Dearborn (HD), in Dearborn, Michigan, has a mission to ensure everyone has access to healthy foods, health care and opportunities for active living. HD, a partnership between a health care system, city government, schools and 550+ community members, is guided by a steering committee and research team. We describe the role of the research team in shaping HD’s work and city policy. The University of Michigan–Dearborn, with other universitie…
Lurking in the bushes
This paper offers an exploratory overview of different research literatures examining the relationship between urban nature or green space on the one hand, and marginalized, stigmatized, and illicit activities on the other. We situate this discussion within the geographic literature concerning assemblage theory and informality, and apply these concepts to urban green space. We offer some comparative examples from Detroit and Berlin, two cities kn…
Wounds, ghosts and gardens
“It's about half and half”
Parallel Paradoxes and Useful Uselessness
This article explores potentially productive parallels between ethnographic interviewing, mindfulness-based practices, and recovery processes. First, we consider ethnographic interviews as dialogic and affective encounters that reflect and complement the recovery process, paradoxically enhancing agency by illuminating one’s lack of control. For individuals in recovery from substance abuse and associated trauma, the ethnographic interview may prov…
The Cost of Recovery
This paper describes the economic changes experienced by former Detroit sex workers as they progressed through a court-supervised treatment and recovery program. Semistructured interviews were conducted with women during three phases of the program: pretreatment ( n = 31), treatment ( n = 24), and transitional housing/independence ( n = 31). Interviews were also conducted with women who had terminated from the program ( n = 8). Sources and levels…
Streets, strolls and spots
Ghosts, Devils, and the Undead City
As researchers working in Detroit, we have become sensitized to the rhetoric often deployed to describe the city, especially the vocabulary of monstrosity. While providing powerful images of Detroit’s problems, insidious monster narratives also obscure genuine understanding of the city. In this article, we first discuss the city of Detroit itself, describing its place in the American and global social imaginary as a product of its particular hist…
Making Sense of the Transition From the Detroit Streets to Drug Treatment
In this article we consider the process of adjustment from active street sex work to life in structured substance abuse treatment among Detroit-area women who participated in a semicoercive program administered through a drug court. We examine this transition in terms of changes in daily routines and social networks, drawing on extensive qualitative data to illuminate the ways in which women defined their own situations. Using concepts from Bourd…
We don’t have no neighbourhood’
This paper is based on qualitative interviews ( n=20) conducted with individuals working or residing within a heavily depopulated section of the city of Detroit. This area is the projected site of an urban agriculture (UA) project, which proposes to utilise vacant land and economically marginalised residents to produce marketable products and services. With a few exceptions, neighbourhood respondents had little hope of improvement occurring in th…
Heroin Mismatch in the Motor City
In this article, the authors used data from economic and ethnographic interviews with heroin users from Detroit, Michigan, as well as other sources, to illustrate the relationship between heroin users' mobility patterns and urban and suburban environments, especially in terms of drug acquisition and the geography of opportunity. The authors found that although geographic location and social networks associated with segregation provided central ci…
A hell of a life
Drawing on concepts from Foucault and Agamben, we maintain that the lives of daily heroin users provide a prime illustration of bare life in the zone of indistinction that is contemporary Detroit. First, we consider the case of Detroit as a stigmatized and racially segregated city, with concrete consequences for its residents. We then present evidence from in-depth ethnographic and economic interviews to illustrate the various spaces of confineme…
The Game Turns on You
Exchanges of sex for crack cocaine have received much attention from public health researchers and ethnographers of substance abuse. These exchanges are often viewed as one-dimensional relationships in which men use their access to crack cocaine and women's dependence on the drug to exploit them sexually. Drawing on in-depth interview data gathered during three years of research conducted in central Ohio, this article examines the relationship be…
Substance Abuse and Slow-Motion Disasters
In this article, I focus on problem substance use as one outcome of an underlying, "slow-motion disaster" caused by the long-term collision between corrosive structural processes, counterproductive social policies, and vulnerable populations. Using the city of Detroit as an illustration, I offer an original conceptual model for linking the causes and cascading consequences of slow-motion disasters. This model highlights the embedded connections b…
Down on main street
Change in the Scenery
Though still largely perceived as an "inner city" drug, crack cocaine has become increasingly available in many areas of the United States. However, little research has been conducted on the phenomenon of crack cocaine use outside of urban areas. This paper draws on qualitative interviews with 50 recent and former crack-cocaine users to explore patterns of use and distribution in three counties in rural Ohio. The findings show that variable patte…
Perspectives on Health Among Adult Users of Illicit Stimulant Drugs in Rural Ohio
Context: Although the nonmedical use of stimulant drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamine is increasingly common in many rural areas of the United States, little is known about the health beliefs of people who use these drugs. Purpose: This research describes illicit stimulant drug users’ views on health and health‐related concepts that may affect their utilization of health care services. Methods: A respondent‐driven sampling plan was used to …
Cracking the Cornfields
This article describes the process of recruiting research subjects for a natural history study of illicit stimulant use in rural Ohio using respondent-driven sampling and ethnographic methods. Participant observation, qualitative interviews, and focus groups were used to establish the project and to evaluate and modify the sampling process as it unfolded. We outline the steps taken in several different rural counties, using ethnographic data to i…
A Tale of Treatment
This article chronicles the process by which a homeless tuberculosis patient is located, interviewed and placed on a course of directly observed therapy (DOT). This approach, based on an illness narrative model, emphasizes the intersubjective nature of both illness and treatment and the powerful impact of an impoverished social environment. Based on the extensive field notes of a public health worker in the city of Chicago, the article demonstrat…
A hell of a life
Drawing on concepts from Foucault and Agamben, we maintain that the lives of daily heroin users provide a prime illustration of bare life in the zone of indistinction that is contemporary Detroit. First, we consider the case of Detroit as a stigmatized and racially segregated city, with concrete consequences for its residents. We then present evidence from in-depth ethnographic and economic interviews to illustrate the various spaces of confineme…
We don’t have no neighbourhood’
This paper is based on qualitative interviews ( n=20) conducted with individuals working or residing within a heavily depopulated section of the city of Detroit. This area is the projected site of an urban agriculture (UA) project, which proposes to utilise vacant land and economically marginalised residents to produce marketable products and services. With a few exceptions, neighbourhood respondents had little hope of improvement occurring in th…
Cracking the Cornfields
This article describes the process of recruiting research subjects for a natural history study of illicit stimulant use in rural Ohio using respondent-driven sampling and ethnographic methods. Participant observation, qualitative interviews, and focus groups were used to establish the project and to evaluate and modify the sampling process as it unfolded. We outline the steps taken in several different rural counties, using ethnographic data to i…
Ghosts, Devils, and the Undead City
As researchers working in Detroit, we have become sensitized to the rhetoric often deployed to describe the city, especially the vocabulary of monstrosity. While providing powerful images of Detroit’s problems, insidious monster narratives also obscure genuine understanding of the city. In this article, we first discuss the city of Detroit itself, describing its place in the American and global social imaginary as a product of its particular hist…
Lurking in the bushes
This paper offers an exploratory overview of different research literatures examining the relationship between urban nature or green space on the one hand, and marginalized, stigmatized, and illicit activities on the other. We situate this discussion within the geographic literature concerning assemblage theory and informality, and apply these concepts to urban green space. We offer some comparative examples from Detroit and Berlin, two cities kn…
Substance Abuse and Slow-Motion Disasters
In this article, I focus on problem substance use as one outcome of an underlying, "slow-motion disaster" caused by the long-term collision between corrosive structural processes, counterproductive social policies, and vulnerable populations. Using the city of Detroit as an illustration, I offer an original conceptual model for linking the causes and cascading consequences of slow-motion disasters. This model highlights the embedded connections b…
Wounds, ghosts and gardens
Making Sense of the Transition From the Detroit Streets to Drug Treatment
In this article we consider the process of adjustment from active street sex work to life in structured substance abuse treatment among Detroit-area women who participated in a semicoercive program administered through a drug court. We examine this transition in terms of changes in daily routines and social networks, drawing on extensive qualitative data to illuminate the ways in which women defined their own situations. Using concepts from Bourd…
The Game Turns on You
Exchanges of sex for crack cocaine have received much attention from public health researchers and ethnographers of substance abuse. These exchanges are often viewed as one-dimensional relationships in which men use their access to crack cocaine and women's dependence on the drug to exploit them sexually. Drawing on in-depth interview data gathered during three years of research conducted in central Ohio, this article examines the relationship be…
Down on main street
A Tale of Treatment
This article chronicles the process by which a homeless tuberculosis patient is located, interviewed and placed on a course of directly observed therapy (DOT). This approach, based on an illness narrative model, emphasizes the intersubjective nature of both illness and treatment and the powerful impact of an impoverished social environment. Based on the extensive field notes of a public health worker in the city of Chicago, the article demonstrat…
Cracking the Cornfields
This article describes the process of recruiting research subjects for a natural history study of illicit stimulant use in rural Ohio using respondent-driven sampling and ethnographic methods. Participant observation, qualitative interviews, and focus groups were used to establish the project and to evaluate and modify the sampling process as it unfolded. We outline the steps taken in several different rural counties, using ethnographic data to i…
Perspectives on Health Among Adult Users of Illicit Stimulant Drugs in Rural Ohio
Context: Although the nonmedical use of stimulant drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamine is increasingly common in many rural areas of the United States, little is known about the health beliefs of people who use these drugs. Purpose: This research describes illicit stimulant drug users’ views on health and health‐related concepts that may affect their utilization of health care services. Methods: A respondent‐driven sampling plan was used to …
Change in the Scenery
Though still largely perceived as an "inner city" drug, crack cocaine has become increasingly available in many areas of the United States. However, little research has been conducted on the phenomenon of crack cocaine use outside of urban areas. This paper draws on qualitative interviews with 50 recent and former crack-cocaine users to explore patterns of use and distribution in three counties in rural Ohio. The findings show that variable patte…
Down on main street
The Game Turns on You
Exchanges of sex for crack cocaine have received much attention from public health researchers and ethnographers of substance abuse. These exchanges are often viewed as one-dimensional relationships in which men use their access to crack cocaine and women's dependence on the drug to exploit them sexually. Drawing on in-depth interview data gathered during three years of research conducted in central Ohio, this article examines the relationship be…
Substance Abuse and Slow-Motion Disasters
In this article, I focus on problem substance use as one outcome of an underlying, "slow-motion disaster" caused by the long-term collision between corrosive structural processes, counterproductive social policies, and vulnerable populations. Using the city of Detroit as an illustration, I offer an original conceptual model for linking the causes and cascading consequences of slow-motion disasters. This model highlights the embedded connections b…
A hell of a life
Drawing on concepts from Foucault and Agamben, we maintain that the lives of daily heroin users provide a prime illustration of bare life in the zone of indistinction that is contemporary Detroit. First, we consider the case of Detroit as a stigmatized and racially segregated city, with concrete consequences for its residents. We then present evidence from in-depth ethnographic and economic interviews to illustrate the various spaces of confineme…
Heroin Mismatch in the Motor City
In this article, the authors used data from economic and ethnographic interviews with heroin users from Detroit, Michigan, as well as other sources, to illustrate the relationship between heroin users' mobility patterns and urban and suburban environments, especially in terms of drug acquisition and the geography of opportunity. The authors found that although geographic location and social networks associated with segregation provided central ci…
We don’t have no neighbourhood’
This paper is based on qualitative interviews ( n=20) conducted with individuals working or residing within a heavily depopulated section of the city of Detroit. This area is the projected site of an urban agriculture (UA) project, which proposes to utilise vacant land and economically marginalised residents to produce marketable products and services. With a few exceptions, neighbourhood respondents had little hope of improvement occurring in th…
Streets, strolls and spots
Ghosts, Devils, and the Undead City
As researchers working in Detroit, we have become sensitized to the rhetoric often deployed to describe the city, especially the vocabulary of monstrosity. While providing powerful images of Detroit’s problems, insidious monster narratives also obscure genuine understanding of the city. In this article, we first discuss the city of Detroit itself, describing its place in the American and global social imaginary as a product of its particular hist…
Making Sense of the Transition From the Detroit Streets to Drug Treatment
In this article we consider the process of adjustment from active street sex work to life in structured substance abuse treatment among Detroit-area women who participated in a semicoercive program administered through a drug court. We examine this transition in terms of changes in daily routines and social networks, drawing on extensive qualitative data to illuminate the ways in which women defined their own situations. Using concepts from Bourd…
Parallel Paradoxes and Useful Uselessness
This article explores potentially productive parallels between ethnographic interviewing, mindfulness-based practices, and recovery processes. First, we consider ethnographic interviews as dialogic and affective encounters that reflect and complement the recovery process, paradoxically enhancing agency by illuminating one’s lack of control. For individuals in recovery from substance abuse and associated trauma, the ethnographic interview may prov…
The Cost of Recovery
This paper describes the economic changes experienced by former Detroit sex workers as they progressed through a court-supervised treatment and recovery program. Semistructured interviews were conducted with women during three phases of the program: pretreatment ( n = 31), treatment ( n = 24), and transitional housing/independence ( n = 31). Interviews were also conducted with women who had terminated from the program ( n = 8). Sources and levels…
“It's about half and half”
Wounds, ghosts and gardens
The Healthy Dearborn coalition
Healthy Dearborn (HD), in Dearborn, Michigan, has a mission to ensure everyone has access to healthy foods, health care and opportunities for active living. HD, a partnership between a health care system, city government, schools and 550+ community members, is guided by a steering committee and research team. We describe the role of the research team in shaping HD’s work and city policy. The University of Michigan–Dearborn, with other universitie…
Lurking in the bushes
This paper offers an exploratory overview of different research literatures examining the relationship between urban nature or green space on the one hand, and marginalized, stigmatized, and illicit activities on the other. We situate this discussion within the geographic literature concerning assemblage theory and informality, and apply these concepts to urban green space. We offer some comparative examples from Detroit and Berlin, two cities kn…
Mapping the link between outdoor water footprint and social vulnerability in Metro Phoenix, AZ (USA)
Outdoor surface water inequities are the disproportionate distribution of outdoor water for the management of blue and green space, including residential swimming pools and irrigated gardens, and contribute to thermal inequities that are particularly pervasive in arid climates. The purpose of this study was to map and assess social vulnerability to green space and blue space within two transects in metro Phoenix, Arizona, a socioeconomically dive…
Sociology (15 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Social science (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (7 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Ethnography (6 works)